Oak Ridge's director of fusion energy explains why the global race to build the world’s first fusion plant still depends on ...

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The prototype machine with 150 million o C indoors is not a power plant, but it marks the boundary: that is quite hot, far ...

Al Sacco Jr.'s fascination with space led him to a career as a NASA astronaut. His career includes WPI as a department head, ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems published several papers detailing the design of its ARC fusion power plant.

By recreating a nuclear fireball, scientists uncovered unexpected chemistry that could change how radioactive fallout is understood.

We don't know whether theorized primordial black holes (PBH) are real. If they are, they formed in the very early universe, when physics was much different. They had no stellar progenitors and were ...

This is precisely where the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST comes in. With an expanded infrastructure, the institute can now map the entire process chain for the ...

Q: I used to be such a good sleeper, but now I have trouble falling asleep, and I wake up several times during the night. Any ...